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Letter Signed, to P.A.Hurt, explaining that he has been to Cannes, making a report on the drainage there, sending £1, but adding “one has so many calls, especially for memorials to dead scientific friends”. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. 12 Chester Street, 9 February 1883. Sir Douglas Strutt Galton (1822-1899), scientist, interested in submarine telegraphy, sanitary science, the higher education of women, and much else.